Chest Expanders for Rugs

[Custard Cream]

My mare is now 6 months pregnant and her winter rugs are starting to get quite tight. I'm after a chest expander but after a bit of googling it doesn't look as easy as I first thought it would be!

All her rugs are Shires rugs. I looked on the Shires website and they do an expander, but it only has buckle and straps - all my turnouts are trigger hooks and D rings, so the buckle ones won't work.

I could only find one that worked with triggers on Amazon (not a brand I know) but it's from a foreign seller and I don't quite trust it........

Any ideas or links to ones you have?

I'm also after the expanders for the surcingle straps if anyone knows where I can find them from?

 

[Shavings]

hi custard, first i bet your excited for when baby does come

second read this post, towards the end we are talking about making the chest larger on the same type of rug you us, this might be use full

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?714221-Relentless-rain-amp-rugs!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Try this link to an Ebay page:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_o...g+expander.TRS0&_nkw=rug+expander&_sacat=3153

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

Horze.co.uk do them. I use them on my very broad KWPN

 

[Custard Cream]

Thanks everyone - I've bought the horze one - typically as I was putting a different rug on her tonight that one has buckles! So will have to buy one of each now...! Will check out the links.

Quite excited - also bricking it!

 

[Coblover63]

I emailed Shires about this very subject last month, having bought two teal blue rainsheets in different sizes which looked identical, except one had adjustable clips and one had fixed!! Grrr. The answer was that "No, we don't sell a chest extender for the new-style chest clips, but I will forward your email to our marketing department because it may be something we start to produce in future". Nice.